In Quest of Humane Development : Human Development, Community Networking and Public Service Delivery in India

Part A: Perspectives on Human Development -- Chapter 1: Is the Notion of Human Development Capitalo-centric? -- Chapter 2: Human(e) Development: Philosophy, Politics, Praxis in World of the Third Contexts -- Chapter 3: Hunger, Climate Change and Human Development – a Global Perspective -- Chapter 4: Measuring Human Development at Sub-National Level: Methods & Application -- Part B: Delivery of Public Services in India -- Chapter 5: Delivering to Destroy? Communities and Access to Public Goods in India -- Chapter 6: Delivery of Safe Drinking Water in Rural India: A critical evaluation of the public policies and rural water supply programs -- Part C: Education, Health and Social Security for Human Development -- Chapter 7: The changing relationships between education and development: Glimpses from policymaking in India -- Chapter 8: The Effect of Employment Guarantee Scheme on School Attendance in Rural India -- Chapter 9: Health and Well-being of the Elderly People: A Survival Challenge in West Bengal -- Chapter 10: Experience of Social Protection for Unorganized Labourers in West Bengal -- Chapter 11: Backward Region Grant Fund and its Utilisation: A Case Study in the District of Adilabad, Telengaga -- Part D: Gender and Human Development -- Chapter 12: Understanding the cost of violence against women and child marriage and the need for Context-specific response -- Chapter 13: Female Work Participation and Persistent Gender Inequality in India -- Part E: Financing for Human Development -- Chapter 14: Emerging Challenges in Public Financing of Human Development in India -- Chapter 15: Backward Region Grant Fund: Is the allocation justified? -- Chapter 16: Private Provision of Public Goods through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).